\ ASSOCIATED press and central press Births And Deaths Drop In The State During May For Third Month In Row Raleigh, June 18.—For the third successive month, North Carolina showed a declining birth rate in May. The total number of children torn during that and the two preceding months was 20,083, as compared with 20,515 the corresponding period in 1937 showing a deficiency of 432. On the other hand, the number of dieaths in the State also continued to show a steady drop, the total for March, April, and May, this year, be ing 8,426, as compared with 9,079 the corresponding 1937 period, a decline of 653. Deaths Among Children. * Diseases of children took an in creased toll last month over May, 1937, the Vital Statistics Division of the State Board of Health, of which Dr. R. T. Stimpson, is director, re ports. The number of infants who died died under a year old was 533, ds compared with 380 a year ago, an increase of 153 for the month. Ma ternal deaths numbered 51, an in creases of 9 over the previous May, while measles, which was in the State in epidemic form, took a toll of 51, increase of 45 over last year. The increase n whoopng cough deaths wa3 26, whle 157 chldren under two years of age died from diarrhea and en teritis, an increase of 122. Vance County Weekly Extension News Sponsored by J. W. Sanders, County Agent; J. T. Richardson, Assistant County Agent; and Hattie F. Plummer, Home Demonstration Agent. We are planning to hold our Achievement Day at the Middleburg Community House Thursday, July 7, from 10:30 a. m. to 4 p. m. Everyone is to take a lunch which will be ser ved picnic style. ;In the morning we expect to have a program with music, speaking and possibly a demonstration. The Health King and Queen will be crowned. In the afternoon the girls will have a Dress Revue and the boys will have some judging demonstrations. We want you to attend and bring your parents if possible. Explains Penalty For Exceeding AAA Quotas. The penalties for growers who ex ceed their cotton and tobacco allot ments in 1938 have i.een explained by E. Y. Floyd, AAA executive officer at State college. A grower’s cotton marketing quota is all the cotton he can grow on his allotted acreage. If he plants more than his allot ment, there will be a penalty of two cents a pound on all cotton sold in excess of his quota. In addition, he will forfeit all pay ments that he would otherwise have been entitled to under the agricultural conservation program. He will lose his cotton price adjustment payment on the 1937 crop, and the loan he can get on hi s 1938 crop will be limit ed to 60 per cent of the amount he could have gotten if he had not ex ceeded his quota. Tobacco growers are given an acre age allotment and a poundage quota. If tobacco is planted in excess of the allotment, deductions from the grower’s agricultural conservation payment will be made at the rate of 10 cents a pound on the average pro duction of the excess acreage. Tobacco sold in excess of the pound STEVENSON MONDAY AND TUESDAY kin |M with // pi us • qfm \v Arleen /' Popeye Cartoon News of the Day WEDNESDAY THURSDAY - FRIDAY ALICE BRADY MHM youth /gjfißil CHAS. WINNINGER LS I «&' */SjFWKm TOM BROWN . OfjATFoav W*fMp= DOROTHEA KENT ■giji shocwho \ “GOODBYE ||||.ffT BROADWAY” b3| The big name show with Plus: Selected Short Subjects fi§lilliHt Comedy ?» """" Coming Soen: “Three Comrades” with Franchot Tone, Robert Young Robert Taylor—“ Swiss Miss” with Laurel-Hardy. “While, if only one month or even a year were taken into consideration, this would be a bad showing,” com mented Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, State Health Officer, “but it must always be borne in mind that we can’t base permanent statistics on reports of a month or a year, but these must be determined over a period of years.” Dr. Reynolds Comments. Dr. Reynolds further pointed out that preventable diseases in general showed a decrease. For example, there was a decrease of three in the number of deaths reported from diph theria, the total for the month hav ing been only 1, as compared with 4 last year. Typhoid fever deaths total ed only 2, compared with 6 in May a year ago. Tuberculosis in all forms showed a decline for the month of 11. The May report revealed a decline of 9 in cancer deaths and of 52 in pneumonia fatalities. Preventable ac cidents claimed only 98, as compared with 125 last May, or a decline of 27 for the month. Automobile fatalities reported to the State Board of Health in May numbered 61, as compared with 83 the corresponding 1937 month, a drop of 22. In this connection, Dr. Reynolds, again commenting on the report, referred to the safety cam paign being waged throughout the State. age quota is subject to a penalty of one-half the gross value of the leaf or three cents a pound, whichever is greater. If a grower keeps within his acre age allotment, but produces more than his poundage quota, he will still have to pay the penalty if he sells more than his quota. For this reason, growers should sell their best tobacco before their mar ketings reach the limit of their quotas. Question: What is the effect of fer tilization on pastures? Answer: An occasional application of lime, phosphate, and potash to the pasture will encourage the growth of the most desirable pasture plants such as white clover and blue glass I These plants prolong the grazing pa- ' riod by producing i\oth early and late grazing. As they or other good pas ture plants increase in number, the less desirable ones will be crowded out. Eventually this soil treatment will result in the production of ar. abundant succulent pasture growth i which has a much higher mineral and protein content than is found in or dinary pasture plants. Question: When will Farm, and Home Week be held this summer? Answer: This annual convention for farmers and farm women will take place at State College August 1-5. Extension Service officials are now making plans to produce a meeting that is both educational and enter taining. Tours of Raleigh, Duke Uni versity, and the University of North Carolina will be available to those attending. In addition, there will be motion pictures, group singing, re creation, and other entertainment Special classes in various farm and home subjects will be taught by State College specialists. Ifenbimarm Uathjßtspafrfi Odd Facts In Carolina By Carl Spencer Scan fife/rs 7h£ Atoms Or Tn£ /Oory-f/eur Srjrss Amo 1 I TH£/A /?£Sflecr/V£ CAP/rAAS/ NATUAAI CfiOSS Gftowm 1/^SE Jn Ths Tap Or 4 7fi££ / Hr 1 - Grounds Or Smrp Cap/tol. ; £A/vrAto f Deans' f/SH h//TU lAPG£ MtofAU -n/ „n &NAPSO 7dOT# Atos CAUGUr ' W/lson £y o.W. Sapnps, Ttomsw Co. | Grits and Gravel j (By T. MOSES JONES.) “And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays. W'hether we look or whether we listen We hear life murmur or see it glisten. Every cloud feels a stir of might, An instinct wii.hin it that reaches and towers; And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers.” The above verse is one of the many things that I have tried to memorize during my life, and one of the few that really stuck in my mind. Al though I may have gotten a few of the words wrong, and I know that the punctuation is not correct, yet it is worth a place in any one’s garden of memory. And this month is certain ly the most appropriate time to learn or say or-: read it. After you have let something like that lie asleep in your mind for a long timd, and then recall and recite it, it is just like finding a long-lost friend. And if you have wanted to see a friend you haven’t seen fdr a long time, and then that friend just pops up very inexpectedly, your heart is made glad. All of which reminds me of losing a much-prized possession and then finding it again. Years ago my mother and my sister gave me a beautiful watch chain at Christmas time. In a day or so that chain just complete ly disappeared and went up into air. It seemed to have evaporated. And several day sbefore the following Christmas, Mamma was for something else, and away in the very far side of the top dresser drawer was my watch chain. So they gave it to me the second time for Christ mas. i 'Soon after we were married, Mrs. Jones loaned a large table center piece to her aunt. She had worked fine hand-work on it for months and months, and all that embrodiery was worked into pure linen cloth. We happened to attend the very party, supper, or whatever the occasion was when the cloth was used on the STATE THEATRE Today—“ Call The Mesquiteers”—Serial - Comedy SUNDAY MONDAY Pinky Tomlin-in D °?,p d Woodß “ in Komance on ‘Swing It Professor’ the Run” Novelty i oc and 25c NEWS Admission io c and 25c Tuesday . 10c and 15c “Clipped Wings’’ . WEDNESDAY THURSDAY Dick Purcell in “Air Devils” Wednesday—Everybody ..., . 05c Thursday •• •• ■••••••••10c and 250 table. Some days afterwards the cloth was returned. Later Mrsi Jones looked for it and it was just nowhere. We knew the wash women did not take it as our family had known her family all our lives and they were honest. We thought possibly a wo man who had helped do house-clean ing may have taken it. The next year we moved from Daddy Poneses into our own home. Several years later when they were house-cleaning, they found the center-piece rolled up in a piece of paper just as when it had been returned. It was found back of the bookcase out in the hall, be tween it and the wall, resting on a bit of moulding that ran about waist high all around the room. So if you miss something and can not find it, don’t be too sure that some one stole it or took it or just plain borrowed it and forgot to bring it home. When anything like that is lost, it at once becomes more valu able, and larger and better. When a child, I hid one of my trinklets away so securely that I almost never found it. I hunted for it for days, and each coming day the plaything increased in value in my mind. Some months afterwards, I found it in a book and it had become so absolutely worth less by that time that I immediately discarded it. When I was a child I did some thing for a man, a very small favor. Boy-like, I had hoped for a dime, or at least a nickel, for my trouble. All that I got was a very nice “Thank you.” But that same man did some thing nearly twenty years later that amounted to hundreds of nickels to me, and I have thought many times since of that little favor I did for him once and was so disappointed over not getting paid. I can reca’l another instance where a certain fellow borrowed my knife at school. I never saw the knife again. He forgot to return it to me at the time, and later loaned it to an other man. The other man did not return it to him, and he, too, never saw it again. I held the value of that knife in my heart against that boy until we were both grown men. At one of the most important turn ing points of my whole life that very person did a favor for me thaiTlurn ed out to be worth more in actual money value than a thousand knives. I just cannot help thinikng of little things like those that eventually turn into big things. Which saying that made me think of the cocoon on the sleeping porch hung up on a nail by one of the Jones Ttwiins, so I went to look at it. It has been so cool I suppose is the reason, it has not yet emerged into a beautiful butterfly. Lost, again. Mrs. Jones just yes terday found my Odd Fellow lapel three links pin that has been un sound for a year or so and now I can once more wear it on my coat. Wishing you well until next time. I again remain, Yours truly, T. MOSES JONES. nmvSle Eastern Gateway in Great Smokies Has Altitude of 5,325 Feet Dnlly Dispatch Bnrenn, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, June 18—Eastern entrance to the Great Smoky Mountain Na tional Park and the terminus of the new $20,000,000 Blue Ridge Parkway may be at Black Camp Gap and the Heintoooga Ridge, at an altitude of 5,325 feet Highway commission officials her-e believe this is likely to follow refusal of Cherokee Indians of the Qualla reservation to grant a right-of-way for the parkway through the reserva tion. This would make the entrance to the park only 17 miles from Way nesville in Haywood county instead of the present distance of more than 50 miles around by Sylva to Cherokee. When the parkway was first con templated, consideration was given to routing it from Balsam Gap to Black Camp Gap and over to Heintooga Ridge because of the spectacular view of the entire North Carolina side of the park that unfolds from the shelf running along the ridge. If the National Park Service will open the road it has already built for fire protection purposes inside the park area, it would now be possible to drive into the national park from Waynesville over N. C. Route 293 to this road 11 miles out of Waynesville, then four and one-half miles over this county road to Black Camp Gap on to Heintooga Ridge and then down to Cherokee over the park service road. But so far the service refuses to permit any travel over this road, although it was originally one of the major roads scheduled for develop ment of the park proper., ICE SKATING CARNIVAL, WITH REAL ICE, ON STAGE PRO GRAM AT STEVENSON The Stevenson has got a real show for you Sunday. It is an iee skating carnival on real ice with real skaters as the performers. There will be a company of seven teen skaters, all experts, including a chorus of si xpretty skating chorines. There will be a 45-minute program of the most expert sort of dancing and clowning on ice besides a lot of tech nical figure performing. Some of these people are nationally- JAMES C. COOPER sc Wise - ™ ■» §p tA u INSURANCE Se WV( PHONE EO4 -J SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1938 known experts in their field. They say Frelich is the only lady doing barrel jumping on the stage today. Cha'rlyss, it is claimed, is the only girl skater who performs the complete forward flip from the skates to the skates. Lois Lee for some years has had her own radio program of spe cially-arranged songs. You have heard her often. All the chroines come from ice rinks throughout the country and each of them is a special ty skater in her own right. The ice used for the rink is made by a specially-prepared formula re sulting from years of research and experiment. It is a dry synthetic ice which is brought to the theatre in slabs 4 feet long and 6 feet wide. These slabs are placed on the stage and .the cracks are sealed and froren together with the ice which must be boiled to a temperature of over 600 degrees before it is ready to paint on the surface of the slabs of ice. This terrifically hot synthetic ice freezes instantly on the rink and is ready for skating in a few moments. STEVENSON Sunday Matinee and Night—June 19th Shows at 2:30 and B:3o—Matinee 10-35 c; Night 40c x* OH OUR STAGE! */^p\ M ~ A NOVELTY SUPREME ( ’ ] fS * The costliest attraction ever/ ja|j\ \-0\ IZI T~~~ I 9 % m play a local theatre 1 l||| | »I -J Ilakeplacidl ■ ICE FOLLIES I I “A NIGHT AT LAKE H ■ * PLACID” * ■ L Featuring the Lake Placid Sweethearts JM _ . _ ON THE S CREEN “Outside Os Paradise” with Phil Regan—Penny Singleton Plus: Selected Short Subjects CAN YOU ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS? See Page Four 1. Where is the French colony of Guadeloupe? 2. Has the U. S. ever been a member of the League of Nations? 3. Which state has the nickname “Evergreen State?” 4. How did the titles of the executive, in the President’s cabinet ori sun from the earth? n Sj\ hiCh Ume zomj is Switzerland? 9. What are half-castes? 10. Is scissors singular or plural? Move Here. Sergeant Jerry Hooks and family of Atlanta, Ga., have moved to the city to make their home. Sergeant Hooks will act as Sergeant Instructor under Major Harry Melton, who i • Medical Instructor for the 30th di vision. and Venetian Blinds Puts You In The Shade Add comfort and beauty to your home or place of business. Let me install awnings and blinds now. See Display Now At Hughes Furniture Company Sold and Installed by T. J. Harrington Phone 378 or 2620 NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained under the law of the State of North Carolina pertaining to mechanic, artisan and storage liens, and in order to satisfy mechanic, artisan and storage lien, the undersigned will offer for sale, and sell by public auction to the high est bidder, for cash, ai the place of business of O’Lary’s Garage, Inc., in Vance County, North Carolina, at 12 O’Clock, Noon, Monday, July 11, 1933. the following article of personal pro perty: One White Truck, Motor No. 11A5511, Serial No. 196308, registered in the name of The White Motor Com pany, 314 W. BlarJ Street, Charlotte, N. C. This the 11th day of June, 1938. O’LARY’S GARAGE, INC. Gholson & Gholson, Attorneys.